DODIK: SURRENDER AND GIVING UP DO NOT EXIST

BANJA LUKA, AUGUST 6 /SRNA/ - Surrender and giving up do not exist, President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik said after the Central Election Commission /CEC/ terminated his mandate, given by the people at the general elections in 2022.

"Surrender is not an option," Dodik wrote on the X.

CEC made a decision today on termination of the President of Republika Srpska Milorad Dodik's mandate, after he was elected in the 2022 general elections. The president is allowed to appeal.

The CEC's decision to terminate the mandate of was made after the Appellate Division of the Court of BiH upheld an earlier first-instance verdict in which the President of Republika Srpska was sentenced to one year in prison and six years of political activity ban "for disobeying the decisions of Christian Schmidt".